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[Acanthus117]

Why are they gone? D:

[Armok]

year-by-year realization of my mortality.

... or you could just sign up for cryonics.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Inaluct is gone.
Makes me sad.
It was always an interesting game of mafia with him.

Reasonableman is also gone.
This also makes me sad.

Were they muted (f)or something?

[Cthulhu]

year-by-year realization of my mortality.

... or you could just sign up for cryonics.

So you can not just be dead, but also frozen.

[Duke 2.0]

year-by-year realization of my mortality.

... or you could just sign up for cryonics.

So you can not just be dead, but also frozen.

And a couple-thousand poorer as well. Granted you are dead then so it doesn't matter, but that is a couple-thousand you could have donated to charity or something.

[Armok]

No, you're not dead. There is the risk you are never going to get revived... But it's better to be maybe dead than absolutely dead. Cryonics is done after you've been declared dead, sure, but before you're ACTUALLY dead.

[Footkerchief]

No, you're not dead. There is the risk you are never going to get revived... But it's better to be maybe dead than absolutely dead. Cryonics is done after you've been declared dead, sure, but before you're ACTUALLY dead.

So it's like Pascal's Wager for transhumanists, except that in this case the afterlife does have a cash money price tag. 

[Cthulhu]

No, you're not dead. There is the risk you are never going to get revived... But it's better to be maybe dead than absolutely dead. Cryonics is done after you've been declared dead, sure, but before you're ACTUALLY dead.

Oh, I see.  Cessation of thought and bodily processes is only half dead.  When are you ACTUALLY dead then?

[Retro]

When are you ACTUALLY dead then?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0595.html

[dragnar]

No, you're not dead. There is the risk you are never going to get revived... But it's better to be maybe dead than absolutely dead. Cryonics is done after you've been declared dead, sure, but before you're ACTUALLY dead.

Oh, I see.  Cessation of thought and bodily processes is only half dead.  When are you ACTUALLY dead then?

When the brain degrades to a point that restarting the body would not restore consciousness. In rare cases people can be restored from clinical death, but after the brain goes it's over.

[Jackrabbit]

No, you're not dead. There is the risk you are never going to get revived... But it's better to be maybe dead than absolutely dead. Cryonics is done after you've been declared dead, sure, but before you're ACTUALLY dead.

Oh, I see.  Cessation of thought and bodily processes is only half dead.  When are you ACTUALLY dead then?

When you can no longer be world-weary and cynical about everything. That's true death.

[Karnewarrior]

Inaluct is gone.
Makes me sad.
It was always an interesting game of mafia with him.

Reasonableman is also gone.
This also makes me sad.

Were they muted (f)or something?

Jeeze, Toady is really cracking down...

[ToonyMan]

Reasonableman...

Inaluct....

BAWWWLLLLS

[Jackrabbit]

Inaluct is gone.
Makes me sad.
It was always an interesting game of mafia with him.

Reasonableman is also gone.
This also makes me sad.

Were they muted (f)or something?

Jeeze, Toady is really cracking down...

I don't believe so. Inaluct just left, presumably for other things, and Reasonableman might just be dealing with real life or something.

[Duke 2.0]

 Yeah, Reasonable just disappeared one day. He didn't do anything to violate the chillaxmosphere.